Paper Whisper Introduces a Winter Japanese Stationery Selection Shaped by Nordic Design Principles

Uppsala, Sweden, 17th Dec 2025 – Paper Whisper has introduced a seasonal selection of Japanese stationery curated around ...

Writing The Future Of Work: How Japan Is Approaching An Age Of Less

Across Japan, organizations are redesigning how work gets done in response to structural labor shortages. Many of these ...
Orlando Sentinel

IS WRITING BECOMING A LOST ART IN JAPAN?

The standard way to begin a letter in Japanese is “haikei,” an honorific that can be literally translated as “your enlightened worship.” So it was a problem when a young businessman miswrote a few ...
Seattle Times

With “ending notes,” elderly Japanese can write what may be difficult to say

TOKYO — Living alone in a tidy little house on the outskirts of Tokyo, 75-year-old Tomohiro Ishizuka spends hours dwelling on things unsaid. There are, he recalls, the stories he never told his two ...
Poughkeepsie Journal

Try a 'first writing' for New Year's. This workshop will teach you the Japanese tradition

This time of year prompts us to reflect on our achievements, places we've visited, and people we've spent time with. As the new year approaches, we often compile a list of aspirations in the form of ...
毎日新聞

Donald Keene's Japan (Pt. 59): Writing on Ishikawa Takuboku as last large work of career

This July 21, 2012, photo shows Donald Keene during a visit to Ishikawa Takuboku's family grave in Hakodate, Hokkaido. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) TOKYO -- After a while, the ...
CNN

Japan asked the international media to change how we write their names. No one listened

In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the “familiar map of China.” In the new system ...